Smyrna times., 1887-01-19
to the fifteenth they stood IA, IA and 2

looked-for surprise. The two votes for |
Morris were cast by DIR. Lewis and
Allaband, Wolcott and Family men
respectively. Morris is quite novice
in politics, if you can say he is in poll
tics, which in reality he is not, but |
being cashier of the Farmers Bank in |
this town, he has the handling of the |
States money, and having handled it |
so long, of course is perfectly cOmpe- |
tent to fill the office he seeks. II is a |
well-known fact that he does all the |
work connected with the office, the in
cumbent doing nothing but signing a |
few drafts and reCeipting occasionally |
bills, for which trying labor he is paid |
81, 800 annually. There has been bill |
entered, and it has caused some COM
ment, to reduce the salary to $1,000, |
which sum is more than the State |
Treasurer earns. 1t was only last week |
prominent retired gentlemen of this |
town said he would take the Office and
guarantee to conduct it rightly for 5000
a year.
have no hesitancy in predicting
that Nowland will be the choice of the
caucus tomorrow night, as his men
cannot be influenced by promises of
Burnite, of Kent, will be the Auditor,
but, if on the other hand Herbert
should win, which he has, no doubt,
the best chances by reason of his side
having all the patronage at their COM
mand, James BOyce, of Sussex, will be
Auditor.
1t is to be hoped that after to o-mOrrow
night the Legislature will be able to
| settle down to work, the offices seeming
to take all their time and talents OF
all the officials in the State there is one
that it is generally conceded by those
cOnversent with the facts should be
above all political consideration, and
that is the Librarian, Samuel D. Truitt
| The Library in his hands is Il place of
/ convenience, but it is only his famil-
iarity with the resting places of the
various documents that makes it so.
! His reappOintment under the present
condition of affairs becomes a public
necessity.
THE INAUGURAL.
The Inaugural was the event of to-
day. The crowd of people in town was
the smallest ever known on an occasion
of this kind. The oldest inhabitants
say they never saw such a small con
course Of people. Gov. Biggs arrived
on the noon train and was escorted by
the MiddletOwn Band to the residence
of Hon. Eli Salisbury. After a short
sojOurn there he was escorted to the
State House, where the Legislature
joined the procession, which proceeded
to the Court House, where the Gov
ernOr-elcct was sworn in by the Chan
| ppllOr ftpr tho oath HU0c od, nj
tered the Governor read his inaugural
address to a large crowd. The address
is not considered any better than his
predecessors.
The Governor and wife held a recep-
tiOn at o'clock tonight in the Court
House, E. 7. Cooper presenting the
people and the Governor and wife re-
ceiVing very gracefully. At o'clock
the people repaired to the State House,
where the Inaugural Ball was given.
There were some of the finest costumes
on the floor ever seen in Dover. The
festivities closed at a late hour and the
visitors left on an extra train for their
homes.
There is a correspondent reporting
the proceedings Of the Legislature for a
Dutch paper in Wilmington, which has
about as much in it as his head, who is
rapidly making himself the laughing
stock of the town by his very egOtistical
manners.
TOWN NEWS.
A great deal of talk was caused bv a
slight offered one of our ministers last
week on the occasion of a wedding.
which was held in his church, but at
which minister of our sister State of
Maryland OiIiciated, who not only
neglected to invite the pastor of the
church into the chancel on the occasion.
but previously wrote to the stewards
asking them to have the church ready
for him on such and such date, en-
tirely ignoring and falling to show the
, pastor the courtesy due him. 1t is said
that the chances of that minister ever
having a pulpit in Dover have been
knocked higher than kite.
The firm of Benson & Hope have
started a grist and grain mill in the
; Fourth Ward, something that has long
been needed in town.
A good joke, or rather true story, is
told of teacher from Sussex up here
in attendance upon the late Institute,
who desired to wrestle with Blackstone
,
taught a short while, his ambition nat
urally was to study law. Knowing
that Dover contained as fine legal
, talent as any place in the State, he de-
cided to place himself under the tutor
:, ship of one of our legal lights. With
, this determination, he sought an intro
: duCtiOn and obtained one. After stat
| ing his desire, he inquired what were
= the qualifications necessary to pass an
: examination. The lawyer stated some
of them and asked him how he stood in
Latin, to which he raplied that he had
: finished the five books of Casar
: WhereupOn the lawyer suggested that
he study in Sussex, the examinations
not being so hard and difficult as in
= Kent, explaining to him that he was
not far enough advanced in Latin, q
brother lawyer present emphasizing the
declaration by telling him that there
! was as much difference between Caesar
! ! and Virgil-the next book necessary
= as between English and Hebrew. Thi.
: riled the teacher from Sussex. who
wanted them to understand that he
didn't come up here to be insulted he
wanted them to understand he was II,
t fool, and exclaimed, "If am not com
# petent to study law now l never will
;, be, after having read the five books -
o Cesar and the fourth parallel I" Tn,
o lawyers, after vainly thinking what the
last part of his expression meant, bic
y him adieu, and now there is one law
S student less.
Dover is the boss town for scanda
# sensations, averaging two or thre,
minor ones weekly and a first-class on,
e monthly. The innocent victim of tn,
latest, one of our most prominent anC
st straightforward business men, is goin,
G to make it warmer for some one thai
If the temperature has been to-day.
r really is the most Internal curse the wa,
d homes are tried to be destroyed b.
r scandal mOngers in this town, and
great many people will be sincerel,
e thankful if the last victim of their mos
G, foul tongues is able to bring to iustic
It his defamers and wOuld-be DESTROYER
:. of his domestic life JULIAN.
Feasibility of District Representation
TO the Editor Of The Morning Ne,Us-
SIR; As the Legislature at the nresan